venerdì, ottobre 30, 2015

Another great Lansdale, set in the west in the early 1900s (perhaps after 1910 given the presence of cars), where a very special company of bounty hunters move in search of a group of bandits who kidnapped a teenager, as well as sister of one of them. Engaging and well written, if it were not splatter might seem McCharty.

lunedì, ottobre 26, 2015

Nice book, scary, the plot is interesting enough, although some things can be easily imagined and forseen, plus the characters are three-dimensional. Only comment I would make is that "rules of engagement" in regard to "humans evolved" are not clear, but in short, the book is not difficult to understand the same.

giovedì, ottobre 22, 2015

This book is a little bit of a Bible for Jazz lovers, but it is importat to buy the e-book version, because of all the links to the you-tube songs. Sometimets it can become a little too technical but anyway when you are very very interested in the subject, there is only to learn.

mercoledì, ottobre 14, 2015

There are essays in which it soon becomes clear that the author is really a passionate about the argument and can not wait to take the opportunity to talk about it. This book is one of these cases, through a collection of arguments the journey in the literature, almost exclusively English-speaking though, is fascinating to the point of seeming almost alive.

A nice little story featuring Dragos, Pia and the political scenario in the Elder Races Series. Entertaining and funny but it has to be read in order because it is going to change many things from now on.

martedì, ottobre 13, 2015

I love Jess Michaels' book, I love her not super beautiful heroines, her very human heroes and mostly I love the way she builds the stories where, of course, love always wins; so probably I'm going to binge reading this series also, as I did with the previous one ;)

I totally relate, obviously, with the biological stuff part, but I'm still a little bit not so sure about the "spiritual/physical/miraculous" part about which the author is so sure to use it as the base of his whole theory.

domenica, ottobre 11, 2015

This is a super good graphic novel, not only because it's a good story, even if ok, the illustrations are nothing special, but it's told in such a witty and humorous way that sometimes you can forgot that the main topic is cancer. I would recommend all my friends to read it because it's not important if you had cancer or not, it's not about that, it's about life.

sabato, ottobre 10, 2015

Short and concise this book dwells for most of the time on the findings of Hawking istead of his life, it seems to me also consistent with the character who does not want or need to impress with feelings, it is not its purpose nor his work, let alone something for which he is famous. Having said that you can also not read it unless you're particularly interested in the reason why if there were time travelers among us, they would be very small.

venerdì, ottobre 09, 2015

I like Jim Dresden, either in books or in comics, and I liked this story also with a berserk Golem and "Gentelman Marcone" back in action, a little bit of pause from the red court. I'm looking forward to be updated with the books also, but I still miss 7 and I have no idea when I will be able to read them all.

giovedì, ottobre 08, 2015

Finally a book by McCarty thatwas a well worth read, in the last one I was really disappointed and I was deciding whether or not to abandon the series and now I think that I will continue! Robbie and Rosalyin are two beautiful people and she is not a soppy virgin you can fool by words, so I liked a lot of the clash between their two strong characters, now I wonder about who will be the next and I hope Seton, whose story took an unexpected turn.

I liked this book even if is sooo sad and depressive, problem was that it was a present; I wouldn't normally choose to read something about a nice Russian girl obliged to become a prostitute in London, but still there was some redemption somewhere along the book and the characters may had find some peace for each other.

mercoledì, ottobre 07, 2015

Somebody should explain some authors that it is not entirely true that only sad stories make good books, for example this was a five stars book almost till the end, but then, as the war was not enough, some more dead people turn the book for the worst. Pity even if I'm still very happy I read this book, especially because it gave me a good reason to seek out drugs and wine to forget it.

This is absolutely the worst book I read this year. The story is absolutely not my cup of tea, because there is not consensual sex, and as it is a supposedly erotic book I have to admit that my libido was really shaken reading words like urethra. I mean that more than sexual intercourse, it seemed to me I was reading some scientific book about sex. It was so far from being horny that more than once I thought about quitting but as I had to write I review I kept on reading. The characters are so bad that comparing to them Christian and Anastasia are some very nice and intelligent people (instead of a stupid girl and a stalker) and the story is so lacking that the final hint that there can be a sequel made me shiver.

I was a little bit disappointed in this book even if in the end I liked it, but the strange thing is that this book is sometimes really slow even if many thing happen. We have the space station, we have a secret organization that wants to change the world (really change), we have the tracer, some "special postmen" and many other characters, but still the pace is slow. So even if this novel could be read as a stand alone, I would probably read the other two books but I'm not sure I can recommend this book to all the sci-fi lovers because it's not exaclty hectic.

Lisa Kleypas is and has always been one of my favorite romance writer. I loved her regency romance and I liked the contemporary. I cannot say that this is the best in the Travises series, because that's the book with Hardy and Haven, but Avery and Joe are two nice characters, they have a good chemistry and the people around them are also funny, so this is a book to read if you are looking for a contemporary love stories where money and appearance do not count so much.

If somebody would have given me 10€ for every book about a tormented millionaire with a dark past that is dominant and a doormat girlfriend I would be sooo rich right now. In this book we have the dark, super rich, brooding Dane and the super beautiful Ari with a crazy mother and relationship's issue, all the rest you can easily imagine.

martedì, ottobre 06, 2015

This book starts slowly, maybe to help us reacquaint with Dan Torrance, which is no more a child who wanders in the halls of the Overlook Hotel (the tricycle in the corridors is an invention of Kubrick and King hates that movie) but a man with big problems. Dick Halloran makes an occasional appearance as well as mom Wendy. The whole story has to do with Dan who knows Abra, whose shining is bigger than any other, but he is not the only one who met her, because even a group of vampires that inhale the steam of the special kids like her (and like Dan was once)and want to torture and kill her to eat her power. In broad terms this is the plot, the Master processes it as only he can do and allows us to know another great cast of characters. This sequel to The Shining is as good as its prequel and I would not mind re-encounter Dan Torrance in another 20 years!

I'm sorry to say that, but this is not the best book of Nalini Singh, at last in the Rock Series. Kit and Noah were too stereotyped to bring something new to the same old love story about two people who have scares from their past. I love the background and I'm looking forward to read Abe story, but Noah and his "problem" were in the end too stretched and I didn't really appreciate the author letting her character go away with the "no therapy" choice, that is not setting a good example.

A collection of the best works of some well known and less known author (to me) of poetry and not only. With is witty humor Alan Bennett made them all more interesting and fascinating and it was really good to find out some new works of poetry that are really good but not so studied in Italy.

Good and interesting book, scary also, I just wonder why the author used a very old map to show the location of the places he was describing, maybe it was good for the atmosphere, but from time to time was difficult to use.

lunedì, ottobre 05, 2015

This book is not exactly a novel, as often pointed out by the same protagonist of the story, more than anything else is a long stream of consciousness (with punctuation, thank God) that tells the thoughts and emotions of a young Japanese man who ran away from home, in the first years of the '900. Fled for a women's issue from the family of origin, the nineteen year old finds himself with no money to be hired to work in the mines, but he has not the "physique du role". Claustrophobic and not only the part of the story that's set in the mine, it almost seems that the protagonist is forced to constantly mulling in his own thoughts, brooding, and the feeling is overwhelming.

domenica, ottobre 04, 2015

Get to the end ofeven this trilogy of Mary Snyder, that personally I liked as much as the first (Study) also because the two series have a lot in common. Avry and Kerrick, as usual, continue to die with disconcerting ease, and we finally have the return of all the Monkeys. Small fact, up to 10 pages from the end of the book, the whole situation was in the making, this is to say that the ending seemed quite rushed and the death of the wicked almost en passant, but if thinks that at least for one "very bad character" it took three books, two paragraphs seemed to me a little bit too few, but I imagine that the author were to write a predefined number of pages.

However, my overall opinion is that this trilogy is also very enjoyable to read as long as you have a passion for the battles and strategies of war.

giovedì, ottobre 01, 2015

Frances Brody tells of the times when, after the end of World War II, have a woman driving through the countryside in English was a source of wonder, imagine if the same woman began to solve mysteries; this time the mystery goes back many years, when the owner of an inn is killed by what looks like the perfect culprit. Freda, the aunt of Lucian, however, has witnessed it all and has always claimed that they had blamed the wrong person, who had been an innocent end up on the gallows, but until her death no one had ever believed her. When Kate and her niece Harriet travelled to the old cottage Freda for a vacation do however soon to realize that things in Langcliffe are much more complicated than they seem. A nice cozy mystery where we have three different plots developing at the same time, but in the end I was a little disappointed because I didn't get the end I wanted.

This is the second book I read by Julie Wassmer and I think that she is getting better at describing people and places, but this time the plot was not so gripping like the first one.

We have the old Characters and some new one that are all involved in Christmas preparations and also McGuire is back for the joy of Pearl and mine also. There as spiteful messages coming to some of the most prominent people of the village but Pearl has too much to do to get a case before the festivities, also Charlie is coming back from Berlin, but in the middle of a Celebration in St Alfred's Church a guest dies and so this postcards appears to be something completely different from anonymous insults.

I like the plot and the way the author finds a way to explain the whole mess, but problem was that the solution was a little too twisted for me. Anyway this is a real good cozy mistery and I'm going to read the next one also, even because I'm waiting to see what is going to happen between the 2 "Detectives".